As printed in the Houston Chronicle, Jeffery D. Sachs asks what if super-rich in U.S. helped save Africans? Good question, what if they did? The primary problem with African nations is not poverty, as Sachs so blithely postulates. While quite serious, this condition is simply a by-product of the real issue. The real problem with…
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Columbia Report In: NASA Criticized
The Houston Chronicle says that astronauts can’t explore space on a wing and a prayer. Sure, they’ve got a point. If more people knew more about the shuttle’s problems, something might have been done differently. Maybe. What’s more to the point is that the shuttle is the best that 1970s technology has to offer and…
Not Found: Weapons of Mass Destruction
Here’s “proof” that Mr. Bush misled us. Ha, ha, ha! If only anyone cared, myself included.
Re-districting Solution?
Usually William Raspberry makes me faintly ill. But his recent editorial about winner-take-all elections and redistricting/gerrymandering actually makes some sense. Of course, that means it will never be implemented…
Supreme Court: OK to be Gay!
The Supreme Court of the United States says it’s OK to be gay. Charming. Thanks, Justices, for your help in raising strong, healthy children in the cesspool of modern life. And thanks to the Houston Chronicle, for assenting. I love Anthony Scalia’s statement: “Even if the Texas law does deny equal protection to “homosexuals as…
Biology Means Very Little, Really
Thom Marshall wrote about a girl who wants to live with her step-mother instead of her biological one, only to be stymied by the courts. When will judges learn to keep their noses out of business like this? A 12-year old knows well enough what’s best. Far better, I might add, than a judge who’s…
A National Championship for a Real College – Hoorah!
It’s nice to see a real academy of education win an NCAA (baseball) championship for a change. Congrats to the Rice Owls! I’d love to see something like that happen in basketball. When pigs fly…
OK to Filter Porn at Public Libraries
In a better ruling than was issued in regards to the scourge of affirmative action, the Supreme Court ruled it is constitutional for libraries to filter porn on public computers. As you may know, I still believe it would be most effective to begin to partition the Internet into zones using top-level domain suffixes like…
Affirmative Action Lives On, Unfortunately
The Supreme Court has voted to allow “limited” forms of affirmative action in college admissions policy. Here’s what Houstonians had to say. Notice anything odd about the feedback page? Of those pictured, only one was a minority and I use that term loosely when referring to a college graduate. I found that highly amusing. Are…
Spam Is Killing the Internet
National columnist Jacquelyn Mitchard is taking her email address out of circulation because of spammers. This is the same problem as us common-folk have; perhaps someone important will care about her, though. Ultimately this is probably going to boil down to people being assigned an IP address the day they are born so as to…